How Music Impacts Games
When playing any game, whether that be PC, Xbox, PlayStation, or Nintendo, you’ll find that it is two to three of your senses that are being engaged. Think about when you are playing one of your favorite trilogy games. You are taking in the game mostly via the visual...
Go Watch “The Way Of The Househusband” on Netflix… Now.
This weeks article is going to be super short because I am in the middle of a bingewatch of "The Way of The Househusband" and I just wanted to take a small moment of your time to tell you to go and watch it. TWOTH is my favourite Manga of all time, following Tatsu who...
Best coop games to play with non gaming partners – What should we play after It Takes 2!
With the critically acclaimed success of It Takes Two I got to thinking what other games are really good in coop, but then I thought no Javier.......what coop games are best if your partner/friend/dog doesn't like video games, or at least doesn't play them? Now I...
Alexx’s Fits of Fury: 2021 Edition
This week marks two years I’ve been on Respawning! My very first article was titled Five Fits of Fury in which I detailed moments in gaming where I’ve let a game get to me and blown my top (not a euphemism) which I felt were entertaining enough to expose myself for....
PlayStation Game Pass?! How It Could Be Done..
For literal decades now I have been firmly team PlayStation.. no no I'm not one of those horrible social media mutants who feels the need to slag off Xbox and fuel some sort of console war. I've simply just not found a reason since the early days of the Xbox 360 to...
RetroMaina Wrestling UPS And Downs Switch Review | The Bear’s Den
After months and months and months of CODENAMEBIGBEAR flapping his gums about it, it has finally arrived on Nintendo Switch...RetroMainia Wrestling the spiritual sequel to WWF WrestleFest is a classic take on wrestling games that takes you back to the good old-days of...
Best games to play in the long Easter Weekend.
We made it gang! The UK lockdowns are finally starting to ease and the majority of us have been gifted a nice long weekend for Easter. And whilst BBQ’s and Pub Gardens are still off the cards for another week, there is still LOADS of games we can session in a long...
Alexx’s Rejected Articles
I’m being a bit cheeky and posting this without having anyone approve it first because I want to talk about five articles I’ve written that I was told I couldn’t post. The rejection reasons vary from their subject matter being too boring, too obtuse or that they were...
The Best Party Games!
IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! Right, now we have that nonsense out of my system, let’s discuss the party, oh wait, we’re still locked down. Well luckily, we live in a timeline saturated by party video games to keep the fun times rolling even when we can’t get out to a bar. I’ve...
It Takes Two Review
It Takes Two is the latest project from the master of co-op games - Josef Fares who brought us the likes of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and the magnificent A Way Out. With a back catalogue like that, my expectations for this platformer which tells the story of two...
Set up a shop in the skies in Floating Islands of Nucifera, coming to PC
In the colourful world of Floating Islands of Nucifera, players will take flight into the clouds to open up their very own customisable workshop, take on loot-filled dungeons, and trade treasure for coin to bring life back to this abandoned town!...
I am having more fun playing upgraded PS4 titles than I am new games at the moment.
Thanks to my incredible foresight and pure laziness/unwillingness to go into a store to purchase anything I was one of the select few hundred people on this planet that received a PS5 on Launch day and whilst I was initially absolutely adoring all 3 PS5 games that...
Will Nintendo have a bad year?! A gentleman’s rant…
Will Nintendo have a good year in 2021? This is a question I've been seriously asking myself despite playing a tonne of switch recently (mostly Bravely Default 2). The thing that really started me off was the pretty awful Nintendo direct. I went into this direct, that...
Alexx Discusses – Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey: The Legendary 300!
I’ve gone through a recent spell of starting lots of new games in a bid to stop going through the motions and defaulting to playing games I’ve already sunk dozens of hours into. Always an advocate for getting out of my comfort zone as often as I can, as demonstrated...
WATCH DOGS: LEGION OFFERS FREE TRIAL WEEKEND 25TH – 29TH MARCH
Ubisoft announced that Watch Dogs: Legion will be available to play for free from 25th – 29th March on Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5*, Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Store on Windows PC. In addition, pre-load is available now. Every character...
SEGA ANNOUNCES THE COMPLETE PUYO PUYO TETRIS 2 EXPERIENCE IS NOW AVAILABLE ON STEAM
Puyo Puyo™ Tetris® 2 is now available on Steam, bringing the exciting puzzle match to PCs worldwide! With today’s launch, the game can now be purchased on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch, in addition to PC via Steam. Watch...
Marvel’s Avengers Updated 2021 Review
When I reviewed Marvel’s Avengers back in September last year, I praised it for having a really enjoyable campaign with excellent combat while criticising it for it’s awful repetitive endgame content, being littered with bugs and it’s seedy live service...
Stubbs The Zombie Switch Review | The Bear’s Den
CODENAMEBIGBEAR has been playing Stubbs the Zombie: Rebel Without a Pulse on the Nintendo Switch, It's the first time in about 10 years since he last played the brain eating simulator and he wanted to know if it still hold up in all its 2005 glory....
Future Imperfect is a great story… but it’s not enough to save the Avengers game.
On Thursday, I played through the entirety of the Avengers games new Hawkeye centered expansion that follows (very loosely) the critically acclaimed Future Imperfect story, this was also my first opportunity to play the PS5 upgraded version of the game and whilst...
March TV Madness!!!
Recently I've found myself diving for the TV remote instead of the dualshock or joy-con. I don't know if this is because all I'm playing is JRPGs and maybe I need something else OR simply because there is so goddamn much to watch at the moment. Right now I'm watching...